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Paulo Victor S. Souza; Wladimir B. V. R. Pinto; Acary S. B. Oliveira Universidade Federal de São Paulo (Unifesp), São Paulo, Brazil Mitochondria are essential organelles for human life and play a central role in diverse cellular processes such as energy production, reactive oxygen species, biosynthetic intermediates, autophagy, amino acid and fatty acid synthesis and

Natasha Slhessarenko1,2; Adagmar Andriolo3 1. Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso (UFMT), Mato Grosso, Brazil2. Diagnósticos da América S.A. (DASA), Mato Grosso, Brazil3. Escola Paulista de Medicina da Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), São Paulo, Brazil The reference intervals (RI) represent a set of values used to interpret the results of

Paulo Campregher Laboratório de Genética Molecular do Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo, Brazil Myeloproliferative disorders are a group of clonal myeloid neoplasms characterized by increased proliferation of myeloid cells with preserved cell differentiation. The molecular features of myeloproliferative neoplasms have been efficiently mapped in the last decades(1). Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) is a myeloproliferative

Zsuzsanna Ilona Katalin de Jármy Di Bella Escola Paulista de Medicina/Universidade Federal de São Paulo (EPM/UNIFESP), São Paulo, Brazil Publicado em 27/03/2018 Hormonal contraceptives revolutionized the world in the 1960s, allowing women to separate sexual intercourse from procreation. However, since then, doubts exist over the long-term negative side-effects of hormonal contraceptives. Arterial thromboembolic phenomena were soon

Rodrigo CayôJ. Bras. Patol. Med. Lab. 2017;53(6):356-357DOI: 10.5935/1676-2444.20170056 Rodrigo Cayô Escola Paulista de Medicina/Universidade Federal de São Paulo (EPM/UNIFESP), São Paulo, Brazil The genus Acinetobacter comprises several groups of closely related species(1, 2), including the Acinetobacter calcoaceticus-baumannii complex that was initially proposed in 1991(3). At that time, it had not yet been described what would become one of the